Ride of the Valkyries by Rico7293

Format: Commander

Commander: Giada, Font of Hope

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This mono-white Angel tribal deck, helmed by Giada, Font of Hope, seeks to deploy a relentless air force of powerful Angels, leveraging Giada's mana acceleration to cast high-cost Angels ahead of curve and her +1/+1 counters to make each subsequent Angel even bigger. The primary game plan is combat inevitability: establish a board of flying, lifelink-gaining Angels, protect them with a robust suite of indestructible effects and phasing, and overwhelm opponents with repeated attacks. The deck also runs a significant stax and pillow-fort package (Archon of Emeria, Grand Abolisher, Ghostly Prison) to slow opponents while the Angels take over. Secondary win conditions include token swarm via Court of Grace and Moonsilver Spear, and card-advantage engines like Trouble in Pairs and The One Ring. The commander is an accelerator, not a mandatory piece, so the deck functions well even when Giada is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aang's Shelter
• 1 Abstergo Entertainment
• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 Angel of Jubilation
• 1 Angelic Arbiter
• 1 Angelic Field Marshal
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archaeomancer's Map
• 1 Archangel of Tithes
• 1 Archivist of Oghma
• 1 Archon of Emeria
• 1 Authority of the Consuls
• 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1 Avatar's Wrath
• 1 Battle Angels of Tyr
• 1 Bruna, the Fading Light
• 1 Caged Sun
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Court of Grace
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Exemplar of Light
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Firemane Commando
• 1 Flare of Fortitude
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Giada, Font of Hope
• 1 Gisela, the Broken Blade
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1 Haystack
• 1 Heaven-Sent Marvel
• 1 Heliod's Intervention
• 1 Herald of War
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1 Lyra Dawnbringer
• 1 Magus of the Moat
• 1 Mana Tithe
• 1 Minas Tirith
• 1 Momo, Friendly Flier
• 1 Moonsilver Spear
• 1 Orim's Chant
• 1 Osgiliath, Fallen Capital
• 1 Patchwork Banner
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pearl Medallion
• 22 Plains
• 1 Rebuff the Wicked
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Resplendent Angel
• 1 Righteous Valkyrie
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sephara, Sky's Blade
• 1 Seraph Sanctuary
• 1 Serra Paragon
• 1 Silence
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Warden
• 1 Split Up
• 1 Staff of Compleation
• 1 Starnheim Unleashed
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 The Wind Crystal
• 1 Thran Dynamo
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Valkyrie Harbinger
• 1 Voice of Victory
• 1 Youthful Valkyrie